Widow makes murals to urge health-care reform Regina Holliday couldn’t have anticipated a year ago that she would spend her days on a ladder, brush in hand, painting images that are both captivating and controversial. But a year ago her husband, Frederick, hadn’t been diagnosed with advanced kidney cancer. He spent years working retail and going to school to become a film studies teacher only to have his dream cut short. He died less than three months after the diagnosis, leaving his wife and two children.
So Holliday started painting murals.The first one — on the outside wall of her husband’s favorite deli — depicts a reimagined medical chart, which the artist believes could save patients from needless injury or worse. The second mural, spanning 20 feet-by-50 feet on a gas station wall, is a personal piece titled “73 Cents,” which is the amount per page that it costs to get copies of your medical records in Maryland. The rest of this article is only available to subscribers. |
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